Vicini

The Vicini family is the wealthiest family in the Dominican Republic^[1] and is best known for their vast holdings in the sugar industry.^[2] The family business was started by Juan Bautista Vicini Canepa, who migrated to the Dominican Republic from Italy in 1860.

^ Forbes Staff (April 21, 2015). "Los empresarios más ricos de República Dominicana". Forbes México.
^ Tolan, Sandy; Cordero Nuel, Euclides (September 17, 2021). "The High Human Cost of America's Sugar Habit". Mother Jones. By the end of the year, Hartley had partnered with Dominican human rights lawyer Noemí Méndez, who was born in a batey. Together they toured camps controlled by the powerful Vicini family, where his Haitian parishioners worked, and talked to cañeros about their rights and distributed copies of the Dominican Constitution. They both began to get death threats; Hartley says he would receive them until they drove him from the country in 2006.

[1] Forbes Staff (April 21, 2015). "Los empresarios más ricos de República Dominicana". Forbes México.

[2] Tolan, Sandy; Cordero Nuel, Euclides (September 17, 2021). "The High Human Cost of America's Sugar Habit". Mother Jones. By the end of the year, Hartley had partnered with Dominican human rights lawyer Noemí Méndez, who was born in a batey. Together they toured camps controlled by the powerful Vicini family, where his Haitian parishioners worked, and talked to cañeros about their rights and distributed copies of the Dominican Constitution. They both began to get death threats; Hartley says he would receive them until they drove him from the country in 2006.

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